DAYTON, Ohio–The Firefighters & Company Federal Credit Union is donating carbon monoxide detectors to fire departments for the sixth year in a row.
The CO detectors will be donated to the local fire departments in the communities that the credit union serves in the Ohio counties of Montgomery, Miami and Greene. Departments, including Dayton, Trotwood, Harrison Township, Butler Township, Huber Heights, Kettering, Spring Valley Township, Bethel Township and a few more will be receiving the donations over the next several weeks. A total of 550 detectors will go out to the local departments.
More than 2,600 detectors have been donated since the program was established in 2016. This program was set up as a way for the credit union to give back to the community utilizing some of the funds from the credit union’s holiday skip-a-payment program.
“However, this year with COVID-19, the credit union still offered their members the opportunity to skip their loan obligations for the holiday, but did not charge the members and the credit union paid for all 550 CO detectors themselves to continue the donations to the fire departments that started six years ago,” the CU said.
The donation over the years totals almost $35,000.
The Firefighters & Company Federal Credit Union said it hopes to continue this program and grow the number of detectors and the number of fire departments that receive the donation.
“When we started this initiative, we had hopes that it would grow every year and we could serve the community in this way”, said Shannon O’Neill, marketing manager for the credit union, “Now we have fire departments reach out to us who look forward to the donation.”
The $90-million dollar credit union has approximately 6,600 members.